Swoon by Nina Malkin

A fall from an ancient ash tree started it all.  Dice’s preppy cousin, Pen, has different colored eyes and a new visitor in her body when gets up from the ground under the tree.   Dice finds out that her cousin has been possessed by a ghost from another century who is bent on revenge.  The ghost, Sinclair Youngblood Powers, wants to punish the town of Swoon, Connecticut for hanging him more than 200 years before.  Sinclair, or Sin, lives up to his nickname and the town goes wild when he unleashes their wildest impulses.  Dice tries to get rid of him, but finds herself drawn to him instead and accidently gives him human form.  Now she must stop his lustful rampage while dealing with issues from her past and trying to decide if it’s love or hate that Sin makes her feel.

It took me some time to get used to the language in this book. Malkin uses a mix of quirky phrases that reminded me of the way that the teens talk in Juno, pop culture references, and SAT-level words.  This can make the events of the book hard to follow, but definitely gives it a distinct mood.  I would recommend Swoon to mature teens only because there is a lot of drug use and many “Sin” ful situations. 

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